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Logos, Pathos, And Ethos In The Video 'Drunk History'

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Social media has consumed our lives and makes the world comical one day at a time. In the three videos, Drunk History: Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, Drunk History Thomas Jefferson, and Some Bullshit Happening, all use Logos, Pathos, and Ethos by appealing to logic, emotions, and creditability.

In the Drunk History video: Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks, Comedy Central create comical ways to reenact history, in the interest of younger audiences and social media sites. The story starts off by telling the coming about how Claudette Colvin was taking a bus ride home from school with her friend. A white woman then got on the bus demanding a seat, Colvin refused. The bus driver demanded her to get up from the seat and she still refused, saying she paid her fare and it was her constitutional right. The NAACP received a large number of letters saying how brave Colvin was to refuse her seat. Secretary of the NAACP Rosa Parks reviewed the letters and incepted by the NAACP to become the spokesperson of the NAACP's bus boycott and Anti-Segregation movement. I honestly had never heard of Claudette Colvin until watching the Drunk History video. The added humor …show more content…

Thomas Jefferson, the setting is similar to the Claudette Colvin video. The purpose of this video was to create comical reenactment of Adams vs. Jefferson Election. This video setting is the election of 1800 Founding Fathers and best friends John Adams and Thomas Jefferson turn into enemies during election. The impaired storyteller used a lot of profanity but I believe that’s what made the video comical. In a traditional history setting I could not imagine the language the story teller used in Drunk History. The storyteller focuses on libel in the election by word of mouth and in the newspaper. The video somewhat reminds me of the most recent election in which there was a lot of libel and slander on social media sites such as YouTube, Twitter, Facebook

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When Bus #2857 was first built nobody knew that one day it would make history. The bus, like all buses at the time, was segregated. Blacks were forced to sit behind the COLORED sign in the back of the bus and when the white section of the bus filled up, they were forced to give up their seats. On December 1st, 1935, Rosa Parks got on bus #2857 and sat behind the COLORED sign. All the seats in the white section were taken and at the next stop, a white man didn’t have a seat.

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During a crowded afternoon bus ride, "I decided I wasn't gonna take it anymore… After the other students got up, there were three empty seats in my row, but that white woman still wouldn't sit down-not even across the aisle from me…blacks had to be behind whites… 'Why are you still sittin' there?'"(Hoose 32). Initiating the Civil Rights Movement, Claudette Colvin refused to stand for a white lady when there was an empty row next to her. Claudette's bravery sparked a fire within the black community, & they attempted to keep her name in the papers. Through the short bout of fame, “The news that a schoolgirl had been arrested for refusing to surrender her bus seat to a white passenger flashed through Montgomery’s black community and traveled far beyond,”(Hoose 39).

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Host, Derek Waters, in two of the videos, “Drunk History: Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks” and “Drunk History: John Adams vs. Thomas Jefferson,” engages with inebriated guest who recount the history of the U.S. The purpose of the first is to portray the contribution of Colvin and Parks to the Bus Boycott by having an intoxicated woman narrate the story. The second depicts the deterioration of Adams and Jefferson’s friendship during the 1800 election which is reiterated by a tipsy man. The first video adopts a sympathy tone in order to elicit a similar emotion from discriminatory experiences in the adult viewers. In the second video, it adopts a ridiculous tone in order to convey amusement in the adult viewers.

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Claudette Colvin spearheaded the Civil Rights Movement in the United States with her arrest on March 2, 1955. She protested the segregation of buses in Montgomery, Alabama. This led to the Supreme Court ruling that ended bus segregation in Alabama. Claudette Colvin’s young age and big personality kept the NAACP from turning her into the symbol that Rosa Parks became.

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The Brown v Board of Education and the lynching of Emmitt Till fueled the Civil Right Movement to continue to challenge segregation, the Montgomery bus Boycott in Alabaman took years of planning by black communities, black colleges and the Women political Council (WPC) and the NAACP to start challenging segregation. The mayor of was ask by WPC to end segregating in the buses but the plead fell on deaf ears. The first Attempt was on Mach 2, 1955 with Claudette Colvin a 15 year-old student, was asked to give up her sit for a white man, she would not give up her sit. The police were called to remove her and allegedly assaulted the arresting police officer. For this reason, Colvin was not used to challenge segregation in the buses.

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The Civil rights movement began for African-Americas to end racial segregation and discrimination. A movement that would take years, lives and pride of many to make each African-American equal to white men. Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King go down in history for becoming the lead voice of the civil rights movement. Rosa Parks was arrest for non-compliance with bus segregation laws, although it was a seat she has paid for. It was known for black women to sit in the back of the bus and to give up their seat for white women/men.

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Do you know who Claudette Colvin is? Claudette Colvin is an important civil rights activist who made a notable impact on the Montgomery Bus Boycott. She is a wondrous person for what she did. Claudette was born on September 5th 1939 in Montgomery, Alabama. She is currently 77 years old.

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After all of these acts and peaceful protests, segregation slowly disappeared. Even though laws were made and the government tried to make things “equal”, there was still people that despised the opposite race. In 1955, a year after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus giving us the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Her arrest would later lead to other boycotts and sit-ins.

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The Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks video set in 1955 displays racism and segregation. The intended audience for this video is basically everyone. The president of the NAACP suggested that Claudette Colvin should be the face of the anti-segregation movement but because she was just a 15 year old girl, Rosa Parks was suggested. Rosa Parks had to sit in the bus to get evidence that black people were being sent to jail for sitting in the white people section. They all believed that the world will listen to someone older.

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In 1955 she refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus to a white man. She was not the first one to not move on a bus. A 15-year old named Claudette Colvin did the same thing just 9 months before Rosa Parks. Her not giving up her seat set the community into a boycott which was known as the bus Boycott. Martin Luther King helped lead the boycott along with the Montgomery Improvement Association.

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Rosa Parks’s influence on the fight for equality was arguably the most impactful of all the leaders in the Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks first embarked on her Civil Rights journey by becoming involved with the NAACP. The author of the History website page on Rosa Parks claims, “in December 1943 Rosa also joined the Montgomery chapter of the NAACP, and she became chapter secretary” (Rosa Parks). Rosa started out as a follower, but became dedicated to the organization so she ran for a board position. About ten years later, the famous Rosa Parks story took place in Montgomery.

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After Rosa parks refused to give her seat to white passenger and was arrested. The black people decided to launch a boycott. It denoted all of African Americans walked instead of riding a bus. The boycotters hoped the bus companies would lose money and be forced to abandon their segregation policy. After a year bus boycott, a unit state’s District Court ruling in Browder V. Gayle banned racial segregation on all Montgomery public buses.

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I am going to tell you about an enchanting story about a woman named Rosa Parks and her mongomery, bus boycott. Rosa Parks was born on February 4,1913 in Tuskegee Alabama U.S.A she died on October 24,2005 [age 92] in Detroit, Michigan U.S. before she got arrested for boycotting a montgomery bus Rosa Parks went to school like a normal child. She was raised up on her daddy's farm and raised as a normal girl but she did have to go to a different school then the white people in 1929 when she was in 11th grade she had to go out of school because her grandmother got sick and she had to help her. So most people think that she was the first African American to refusing to yield her seat on a montgomery bus but she was not the first there were actually

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